Is dry mouth and dry eyes a symptom of rheumatism?

Updated on healthy 2024-08-02
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  1. Anonymous users2024-02-15

    No, the most likely thing is to catch fire.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-14

    Some people think that dry mouth must be caused by diabetes, but in fact, it is easy to ignore Sjögren. In particular, more than 50% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are prone to xerosia. In addition, anemia, cardiovascular disease, interstitial pneumonia and cancer may also be complications of rheumatoid arthritis.

    More than 5 percent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis are prone to complicated by xerosia. A female history teacher who has been suffering from wrist pain, redness and swelling since her freshman year of high school was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Later, when he taught history, he had pain and stiffness in his wrist joints, he couldn't hold chalk when writing on the blackboard, and he often had a dry mouth, and he drank 3 to 4 liters of water a day, but his mouth would still stick and he couldn't open his mouth, and he was diagnosed with a complication of rheumatoid arthritis, that is, Sjögren's syndrome.

    Rheumatoid arthritis is inflamed for a long time and can lead to deformity of the joints

    Cai Wenzhan, director of the Department of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology of the University of Medicine, said that rheumatoid arthritis is a disease in which the autologous immune system is disordered, causing the synovium in the body to be chronically inflamed for a long time, resulting in joint swelling and pain, and it will affect many joints. If not well controlled, long-term inflammation will lead to joint deformity, and severe patients will not be able to take care of themselves.

    The prevalence rate of rheumatoid arthritis in the world is as high as 1%, and in Taiwan, about 120,000 people in Taiwan suffer from this disease, mostly women, about three times that of men, and it is more common in middle-aged people between the ages of 20 and 45. Dr. Cai Wenzhan pointed out that rheumatoid arthritis has many complications, including Sjogren's, pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial pneumonia, Raynaud's disease, central and peripheral neuropathy, arteriosclerosis, vasculitis, lymphoma, etc., among which, it is worth noting that more than half of rheumatoid arthritis patients are prone to complications of Sjögren's disease, because these diseases are associated with B cells.

    Rheumatoid arthritis is more likely to be complicated by xerosis and is more common in middle-aged women

    Cai Changyou, executive director of the Taiwan Anti-Rheumatism Alliance of the Rheumatology Association and director of the Department of Allergy and Immunology and Rheumatology of Taipei Rong Zong, said that rheumatoid arthritis complicated by xerosis is still unknown, and mainly destroys human exocrine cells, such as lacrimal glands and salivary glands. Sjögren's syndrome is divided into primary and secondary, secondary Sjögren's disease is often accompanied by rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, the main symptoms are dry mouth, dry eyes, **, nasal cavity, * dryness, more likely to occur in middle-aged women with hunger and limb loss, the initial estimate of about 90,000 patients with Sjögren's disease in Taiwan.

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